Ohio Revised Code 4511.21(A), Assured Clear Distance, is a law requiring that you drive your vehicle in such a way as to be able to bring you car to a stop to avoid an accident. As a driver, you are required to take into consideration, night driving, weather conditions, hills, curves, turns and poor lighting. If you are driving your car and a car is traveling or stopped in front of you heading in the same direction and in the same path or lane of travel as you, you must be able to bring your car to a stop to...

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If you have a commercial driver’s license an Ohio DUI charge can have devastating effects on your career. Often clients who hold a commercial driver’s license fail to understand that Ohio’s OVI laws can affect your livelihood even if you receive a drunk driving charge while you are not operating a commercial vehicle. If you plead guilty, or are found guilty, of an OVI (drunk driving) offense your commercial driver’s license will be taken away for one year. If you are a second-time OVI offender, an Ohio OVI will...

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The Ohio State Highway Patrol will once again join the New York State Police, Pennsylvania State Police, West Virginia State Police and U.S Border Patrol in the third phase of a concentrated traffic and criminal patrol operation starting tomorrow and continuing on and off throughout the summer in an effort to reduce fatal and injury crashes, while interdicting the criminal element.If you are charged with speeding, reckless operation or OVI (operating a vehicle while impaired) contact Ohio traffic attorney Charles M. Rowland II today at 1-888-ROWLAND or...

The statutory definition of reckless operation can be found at Ohio Revised Code Section 4511.20 which states:
4511.20 Operation in willful or wanton disregard of the safety of persons or property.(A) No person shall operate a vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar on any street or highway in willful or wanton disregard of the safety of persons or property.
(B) Except as otherwise provided in this division, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to...